Enlightenment Flashcards
What is enlightenment
The period of European history where reason was used to understand society
What did philosophers do during this time (3)
1.Create natural law 2.Believed government revived authority from the people and not from god 3.Democracy
What is natural law
Universal laws that are always true
What is democracy
A government where people have a say
Believer of natural rights
John Locke
What is natural rights
The right to life, liberty, and property
Thinks people have the right to overthrow the government
John Locke
Believed government should be in 3 branches
Baron de Montesquieu
What are the three branches
Executive,legislative, judicial
What is the reasoning for the three branches
Separation of power and checks and balences
Believer of freedom of speech and freedom of religion
Voltaire
Believer that society is a social contract
Rousseau
What is a social contract
An agreement in which all people agree to work to the common good of society
What is an effect of enlightenment
Political revolutions
